U3 promises to break the apps chain

摘要

Application portability always has been a huge issue in the IT world because it is such a powerful idea: Move your applications to any machine at any time and they just run. No recompiling, no missing Dynamic Link Libraries, no registry issues, no missing drives. Ahh, that's how life should be. Of course, that is hardly how it is. Life with Windows applications is (to recontextualize Forrest Gump's famous bon mot) "like a box of choc-olates."The difference is the chocolates are super glued in the box, there are tens of thousands of them, some are enormous and can't be eaten without eating scores of other chocolates, some have huge spikes sticking out of them, and others, if you forcibly remove them, blow up the box.Violently. This means that truly portable Windows applications have been rare.